U.S. Labor's Subterranean FireAgainst The Current vol. 131

The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement - sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdoms reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes  are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis  the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below  are also well-known.